Thereon a Shepheard keeping of his Flock,
As [h]Cardigan the next to them that went,
Came with a Mermayde sitting on a Rock,
And [i]Merioneth beares (as these had done)
Three dancing Goates against the rising Sunne.

[Note f: _The Armes of Brecknock._]

[Note g: _Lying towards the midst of Wales, and for aboundance of
Sheepe, liuing on those high Mountaines._]

[Note h: _Expressing the scituation of that Shiere, lying on the
Maratine part vpon the Irish Sea._]

[Note i: _For the aboundance of Goates, being on those
inaccessible Mountaines._]

[Stanza 78]

Those of [a]Montgomery, beare a prancing Steed,
Denbigh[b] a Neptune with his three-fork'd Mace:
Flintshiere[c] a Workmayd in her Summers weed,
With Sheafe and Sickle (with a warlick pace)
Those of Caernaruon not the least in speed,
Though marching last (in the mayne Armies face)
Three golden Eagles in their Ensigne brought,
Vnder which oft braue Owen Guyneth fought.

[Note a: _The Shiere breeding the best Horses of Wales._]

[Note b: _As opening it selfe to the great North or Deucalidonian
Sea._]

[Note c: _Expressing the abundance of Corn and grasse, in that
little Tract._]

[Stanza 79]

The Seas amazed at the fearefull sight,
Of Armes, and Ensignes, that aboard were brought,
Of Streamers, Banners, Pennons, Ensignes pight,
Vpon each Pup and Prowe; and at the fraught,
So full of terror, that it hardly might
Into a naturall course againe be brought,
As the vaste Nauie which at Anchor rides,
Proudly presumes to shoulder out the Tides.

[Stanza 80: _A Simile of the Nauy._]

The Fleet then full, and floating on the Maine,
The numerous Masts, with their braue Topsailes spred,
When as the Winde a little doth them straine,
Seeme like a Forrest bearing her proud head
Against some rough flawe, that forerunns a raine;
So do they looke from euery loftie sted,
Which with the Surges tumbled too and fro,
Seeme (euen) to bend, as trees are seene to doe.

[Stanza 81: _The braue solemnity at the departing of the Fleet._]

From euery Ship when as the Ordnance rore,
Of their depart, that all might vnderstand,
When as the zealous people from the shore,
Againe with fires salute them from the Land,
For so was order left with them before,
To watch the Beacons, with a carefull hand,
Which being once fierd, the people more or less